County: Cavan Site name: KILMORE UPPER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0329
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 638632m, N 803797m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.981994, -7.411025
The Representative Church Body received planning permission to construct a new See House on a greenfield site at Kilmore Upper, Co. Cavan. They were required to engage an archaeologist to carry out pre-development testing on the site.
No material of archaeological significance was exposed in nine test trenches. Artefacts were of 19th- or 20th-century date. Two stone drains were exposed during testing. These were both of the ‘box’ variety, described as ‘stone-built duct’ by O’Sullivan and Downey (2010a, 34), who date the construction of this drain type predominantly to the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century (2010b, 38).
References
O’Sullivan, M. & Downey, L. 2010a The archaeological imprint of agricultural drainage systems. Part 1—traditional drains and ditches. Archaeology Ireland 24 (1), 31–4.
O’Sullivan, M. & Downey, L. 2010b The archaeological imprint of agricultural drainage systems. Part 2—early modern drains. Archaeology Ireland 24 (2), 36–9.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
